Showing posts with label Noteworthy Porsche. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Noteworthy Porsche. Show all posts
Thursday, October 2, 2014
R Gruppe Bergrennen 2014
Didn't take a lot of photos this year, but there was some cool new cars to look at. Weather was great, roads were spectacular...a good time was had by all. Click on photo for larger view.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Blowing Off the Cobwebs
Been neglecting the blog. Hopefully this makes up for it.
My buddy Jim's Aga Blue 67 911 Factory Trans-Am car looks pretty good without the racing livery doesn't it?
My buddy Jim's Aga Blue 67 911 Factory Trans-Am car looks pretty good without the racing livery doesn't it?
Friday, January 31, 2014
American Racers
Issue 217 of Excellence Magazine has my piece on two vintage short wheelbase 911's that competed exclusively here in the U.S. Both cars were discovered by Don Ahearn and restored to their '60's livery.
I thought that I would share some of the vintage photos of the cars from the '60s.
THE WHITE CAR
THE BLUE CAR
I thought that I would share some of the vintage photos of the cars from the '60s.
THE WHITE CAR
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| Daytona 1967 w' Davey Jordan driving - John Wilson Photo |
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| Alan Johnson leads Davey Jordan - Daytona '67 |
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| Daytona '67 - John Wilson Photo |
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| Blackhawk Farms '68 - Tim Startup Photo |
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| 1968 Photo Tim Startup |
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| Riverside Raceway - Photo Tim Startup |
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| Porsport.com |
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| Porsport.com |
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| Porsport.com |
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| Porsport.com |
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| Porsport.com |
The Cool Bits
I picked up this little treasure this week. Its a NOS Porsche Purolator oil filter with a 901 part number. Very rare! The coolest thing about this one is that it has a date stamp that will fit quite well with my '70 S restoration.
It will look good on the shelf and who knows, if I decide to take the car to a concours event it might be worth spinning on.
It will look good on the shelf and who knows, if I decide to take the car to a concours event it might be worth spinning on.
Monday, January 6, 2014
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Porsche 911 S-ST High Butterfly dyno run Automobile Associates
Found this video of the famed "Olive Tart" while rummaging around on Youtube.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
1974 3.0 Carrera RS - In Details
My friend Dirk Layer sent me photos a while back of a recent project to come out of the same shop as the 73 Carrera shown featured in the May 2013 issue of Excellence and shown here: http://renn-spot.blogspot.com/2013/03/73-911-rs-blue-chip-restoration.html.
When I was in Southern California shooting the 73 last year, I had the opportunity to go for a ride in this 74. Honestly, the 3.0 RS had kinda been below my radar and I didn't know all that much about them. But after being exposed for only a short while, I recognized exactly how spectacular the 3.0 RS is. So many accolades have been thrown at the feet of the 73 2.7 RS for the past forty years, but the 3.0 is so much MORE! And it arrived only one year later....
Essentially an RSR for the street (sorta) the 3.0RS is lighter, more powerful, has more tire and better brakes and suspension than the 2.7. Porsche invested a lot of additional effort into strengthening the tub with extra plates around the torsion housings and large gussets throughout the engine compartment. They are also MUCH rarer which is probably why most of us don't know more about them. Even the exhaust note and throttle response is an amplification of what you would expect from a 2.7RS.
The car shown here is a low mileage original car that received more of a "freshening up" than a restoration. The paint and interior had been partially restored previously, but what was remarkable was how unmolested and original all of the mechanicals were. Rememeber, most of these cars were converted to race cars somewhere along the line, so to find one this original and correct is nearly impossible.
Dry ice was used to carefully remove some unoriginal paint that was on the bottom of the car, exposing the original paint and the factory undercoating which was applied thinly in the wheel-wells. Notice how thin the paint is on the floor-pan, with primer peeking through in many areas.
This is what I consider a data-point car. A car that someone can use as a reference when restoring another 3.0 RS or something similar.
When I was in Southern California shooting the 73 last year, I had the opportunity to go for a ride in this 74. Honestly, the 3.0 RS had kinda been below my radar and I didn't know all that much about them. But after being exposed for only a short while, I recognized exactly how spectacular the 3.0 RS is. So many accolades have been thrown at the feet of the 73 2.7 RS for the past forty years, but the 3.0 is so much MORE! And it arrived only one year later....
Essentially an RSR for the street (sorta) the 3.0RS is lighter, more powerful, has more tire and better brakes and suspension than the 2.7. Porsche invested a lot of additional effort into strengthening the tub with extra plates around the torsion housings and large gussets throughout the engine compartment. They are also MUCH rarer which is probably why most of us don't know more about them. Even the exhaust note and throttle response is an amplification of what you would expect from a 2.7RS.
The car shown here is a low mileage original car that received more of a "freshening up" than a restoration. The paint and interior had been partially restored previously, but what was remarkable was how unmolested and original all of the mechanicals were. Rememeber, most of these cars were converted to race cars somewhere along the line, so to find one this original and correct is nearly impossible.
Dry ice was used to carefully remove some unoriginal paint that was on the bottom of the car, exposing the original paint and the factory undercoating which was applied thinly in the wheel-wells. Notice how thin the paint is on the floor-pan, with primer peeking through in many areas.
This is what I consider a data-point car. A car that someone can use as a reference when restoring another 3.0 RS or something similar.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
Product Review: Porsche Reproduction Engine Grills for 911
So last week I was at Aase Sales (www.aasesales.com) poking around in the parts dept when Homer
handed me a large rectangular box. Inside was a brand new Porsche reproduction
engine grill. Of course he knew I wouldn't be able to put it back...
What a nice piece of jewelry this thing is. It would take an awful lot of work to restore an original piece to look as good as this one. The bars are perfectly straight, anodizing and paint is perfect...like I said, a nice quality piece. Comparing it side by side with my original grill everything looked spot on. The shape was the same, the spacing of the bars is the same and the way each bar is terminated was just like my original piece. The only difference that I could find was that the new grill has a slightly smaller mesh opening that the original. A little annoying, but you would have to be a pretty serious anorak to notice that when it is installed.
All in all, I am really happy and think it will finish off my restoration quite nicely. Aase Sales also had some black ones in stock for the 2.4 liter cars.
What a nice piece of jewelry this thing is. It would take an awful lot of work to restore an original piece to look as good as this one. The bars are perfectly straight, anodizing and paint is perfect...like I said, a nice quality piece. Comparing it side by side with my original grill everything looked spot on. The shape was the same, the spacing of the bars is the same and the way each bar is terminated was just like my original piece. The only difference that I could find was that the new grill has a slightly smaller mesh opening that the original. A little annoying, but you would have to be a pretty serious anorak to notice that when it is installed.
All in all, I am really happy and think it will finish off my restoration quite nicely. Aase Sales also had some black ones in stock for the 2.4 liter cars.
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